Apprenticeship training course
Learning and skills mentor (level 4)
Supporting learners of all ages and all levels, to develop within a new work role.
- Qualification level
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4
Equivalent to higher national certificate (HNC). - Typical duration
- 12 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Education and early years
- Maximum funding
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£5,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Academic mentor
- Learning mentor
- Occupational mentor
- Technical mentor
- Training mentor
- Tutor
- Vocational mentor
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Conduct sustainable mentoring practice within organisational and professional boundaries, and legal and ethical requirements, including safeguarding
- Establish and maintain mentoring contracts with mentees and where relevant, other stakeholders
- Conduct mentoring sessions according to agreed plans
- Implement established mentoring tools and techniques to help the mentee work towards agreed outcomes
- Maintain records of mentoring practice, complying with quality, confidentiality and data protection requirements
- Establish and use assessed starting points to establish agreed outcomes of the mentoring process
- Assess and review progress and achievement of agreed outcomes and revise action plans as appropriate
- Maintain mentoring relationship through a non-judgemental and objective approach
- Use questioning techniques to encourage reflection and progression
- Provide feedback to the mentee to inform progression
- Inform, advise and guide the mentee to support development toward agreed outcomes
- Apply theories and models of evaluation and reflection to support mentee development
- Monitor and reflect on own mentoring practice, including feedback from supervision, to develop self
- Apply evidence based mentoring practice informed by own research
Full information on Learning and skills mentor (level 4) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.